Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] dynamicly loading dissectors

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 24, 2003, at 10:26 AM, Bryan Henderson wrote:

> For that and other reasons, it should be a build-time option to build 
> them
> all in.

...which would require

	1) that all our existing plugin dissectors be changed so that they can 
be compiled as built-in or plugin dissectors (that's probably not too 
hard to do - but somebody'd have to do it);

	2) that the configure script somehow be able to construct a Makefile 
that will run the "make-reg-dotc" stuff on the plugin dissector 
sources, and build them along with other dissectors.

I leave it as an exercise to some other reader to figure out how to do 
the latter of those, and then to do both 1) and 2) and submit it as a 
patch.